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Sweet potato pie
and shut my mouth
gone gone gone with the wind
ain't nobody looking back again
they ought a get a rich man to vote like that
Native Americans believe they are closely linked with the land and everything that grows on the land or lives on the land. Because of this belief, the idea of "owning" land did not exist among the Native Americans. They lived off the land, but did not consider that they owned it.
This is not to say that they shared the land with other tribes, because they did establish territorial rights to certain parts of America among the many tribes. Intrusion into another tribe's territory was considered an invasion and was often met with warfare.
http://matriarchy.info/index.php?option ... &Itemid=29Before contact with Europeans, land tenure and use favored women. Inheritance passed through the maternal side and women controlled the use of the land. The Iroquois women also controlled the community's store of goods, in addition to farming in female cooperatives. The Northwest Tlingit women handled any money in the tribe, as men were thought to be foolish in their spending habits. The Tlingit women also controlled any fur transactions. In nomadic tribes, such as the Plains Indians, women owned and distributed all the domestic goods, while men controlled all items relating to hunting and warfare.
When the Europeans arrived in America, they were shocked by the Native Americans' matriarchal and matrilineal system. The European conquerors began to chain the Native Americans to the land through farming. As with the Twa tribe, many Native American tribes were subjected to the Spanish system of encomienda, which remained in effect in New Mexico between 1600 and 1680. This Spanish system "provided for the involuntary seizure of a percentage of each Pueblo farmer's crop every year to support Spanish missionary, military, and civil institutions" (Folsom 14).